Category: Travel

This post is copied from the journal I kept while traveling in Russia with the intention of being able to look back at it years later and be able to remember small, long-since forgotten memories of my first international trip and dream come true. It is raw and unedited with the exception of changing my …

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This post is copied from the journal I kept while traveling in Russia with the intention of being able to look back at it years later and be able to remember small, long-since forgotten memories of my first international trip and dream come true. It is raw and unedited with the exception of changing my …

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This post is copied from the journal I kept while traveling in Russia with the intention of being able to look back at it years later and be able to remember small, long-since forgotten memories of my first international trip and dream come true. It is raw and unedited with the exception of changing my …

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This post is copied from the journal I kept while traveling in Russia with the intention of being able to look back at it years later and be able to remember small, long-since forgotten memories of my first international trip and dream come true. It is raw and unedited with the exception of changing my …

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This post is copied from the journal I kept while traveling in Russia with the intention of being able to look back at it years later and be able to remember small, long-since forgotten memories of my first international trip and dream come true. It is raw and unedited with the exception of changing my …

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This post is copied from the journal I kept while traveling in Russia with the intention of being able to look back at it years later and be able to remember small, long-since forgotten memories of my first international trip and dream come true. It is raw and unedited with the exception of changing my …

This post may contain affiliate links. Please view my disclosure policy for more information. My husband and I just got back from a two-week stay in Russia to attend the FIFA World Cup – the first international trip for both of us. Let me be more specific. We just got back from 44 hours of sitting in …

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Being raised in the south, I sometimes forget that sports other than (American) football exist. Therefore, when I woke up that morning on the floor of my friend’s finished basement to the sound of heavily accented commentators and cheering, chanting fans after a sleepover one hot summer night, I was confused. It wasn’t so much …

This post may contain affiliate links. Please view my disclosure policy for more information. Remember my post right before the new year about getting my first credit card since I was 18? So that we could try our hand at travel hacking? And how it was such a major, out-of-our-comfort-zone decision for my debt-averse husband and me? …

This post may contain affiliate links. Please view my disclosure policy for more information. I have big news that may surprise many, disappoint some, underwhelm several and excite others. For the first time since I was 18 – and after over a decade of condemning them as evil traps – I signed up for and was approved …